Arrives Pohnpei 31 August 1901, starts service 1 September 1901.--When posted to Pohnpei in 1901, first as a temporary replacement as the incumbent Albert Hahl was on acting Governour General in New Guinea, he was a forty-year old colonial administrator with previous experience in German East Africa. Berg's Pohnpei career got off on the wrong foot, as he had a strong distaste for the Pohnpeians. After having been severely censured by the colonial head office in Berlin, Berg embarked on an exemplary career in colonial administration, following the official line to the letter both in spirit and in actions, yet developing some sympathy for those he ruled. His handling of the gun buy-back scheme was quite successful even though in the event not all guns had been traded in. Berg expressed great interest in the ruins of Nan Madol on Pohnpei which ultimately led to his death on 30 April 1907. The German official records claim that he died of sunstroke and exhaustion while surveying the ruins of Nan Madol, while the Pohnpeians maintain that he died because he dug up the tombs of Nan Madol. Victor Berg is buried in Kolonia, just below the remains of the German church.

*23 November 1856 (Berlin), Ý3 January 1929 (Berlin).--studies law. Referendarsexamen (civil service trainee examination) 19 June 1880; Assessorexamen (graduate civil servant examination) 18 May 1885.--Called to the Foreign Office 11 May 1886 (on probation); appointed Vice Consul Apia November 1888; Kaiserlicher Kommissar Jaluit 14 April 1890--February 1892; Consul Apia March 1892; Consul Bombay December 1895; Consul Pretoria March 1898; Appointed Consul in Helsingfors as acting Consul General 28 May 1904 (to start 1 October); arrives Helsingfors 23 September 1904; Exequatur (recognised) 29 September 1904; appointed Consul General in St. Petersburg 25 November 1905; hands over to Consul General Rössler 5 December 1905; departs Helsingfors 6 December 1905; Pacific desk, Berlin January 1906; Consul General St. Petersburg January 1906-July 1914; acting position in the Foreign Office August 1914; placed on reserve list 1 March 1915; sent to Petrograd May 1918-18 July 1918; intelligence service (Foreign Office) September 1918-15 July 1920; president of the court of the Imperial Compensation Commission 1920-1924; retires 25 November 1923.

Secretary and post master, living on Jaluit in December 1889/January 1890

Irmer, Dr. Georg

*3 November 1853 (Dessau), Ý13 June 1931 (Berlin).--studied history and politics in Göttingen, Halle (Saale) and Berlin; Staatsexamen Halle (Saale).--joins the Prussian Archive service 1878 as "HIlfsarbeiter", working in Koblenz, Düsseldorf and Marburg; Vicepresident of the North German Society for the support of Emin Pascha; Deputy President of the Hanover chapter of the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft; his activities in the Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft (German colonial society) brought him a call to the Foreign Office in 1892; Landeshauptmann Jaluit; December 1893--March 1898; head office of the German Colonial Service 1899-1900; German Consul in Genoa 1900-1907; German Consul General to the Commonwealth of Australia, Sydney 1907--1911; later on journalist on foreign- and colonial-politics and colonial politician.

Irmer induced the Hiltrup Mission to set up a Catholic mission in the Marshalls

During his tenure the Bezirksamt Jaluit reduced to a Station and made subordinate to Pohnpei. Merz remained nominally Stationsleiter until well after 1916, even though first resident in San Francisco and then in Berlin.

*8 January 1857 (Berlin) Ý13 June 1897 (Berlin).--Studies law in Göttingen; Referendarsexamen (civil service trainee examination) 5 March 1880; Assessorexamen (graduate civil servant examination) 14 January 1885.--called to the Foreign Office 20 May 1885; attached to the Consulate in Apia, acting as Vice consul 3 March 1886; acting Imperial Commissar Jaluit 28 June 1887; Imperial Commissar Jaluit 14 April 1888--29 March 1889; colonial section of foreign affairs 1 October 1889; permanent assistant in the colonial section of foreign affairs 1 February 1891; Acting Legationsrat 1 May 1891; commission to serve as chief judge for the government of German East Africa 12 October 1891; Wirklicher Legationsrat und Vortragender Rat for the Foreign Office.

District Judge and Bezirksamtmann Herbertshöhe 1900-end of 1906; 1903 on furlough; 1906-1908 in Madang and Friedrich Wilhelmshafen; Bezirksamtmann Jaluit late 1908 or early 1909--Nov 1909; District Judge Jaluit and Pohnpei 1908.

During Stuckhardt's tenure, the Landeshauptmannschaft Jaluit made Bezirksamt subordinate to Rabaul.--Stuckhardt was removed from his post by Captain Begas, commander of SMS Condor during an inspection tour of the Marshalls. In a bout of acute persecution mania Stuckhardt had jumped overbard at high seas.